{"id":656,"date":"2011-02-03T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2018-12-17T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:37:08","slug":"the-chicago-blizzard-from-hyde-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/the-chicago-blizzard-from-hyde-park\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2011 Chicago Blizzard from Hyde Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago&#8217;s recent blizzard was the third snowiest on record, with 20.2&#8243; of snow falling on the city and winds as high as 70mph.  The winds were strongest near the lake, where drifting covered Lake Shore Drive and trapped cars throughout its length.  I&#8217;ve received some requests to see the South Side scene, so I&#8217;ve compiled a few of my photographs from Tuesday and Wednesday here.<\/p>\n<p>The blizzard at Promontory Point<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/5408448021\/\" title=\"The Blizzard Hits Promontory Point by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5213\/5408448021_a106232f9c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" alt=\"The Blizzard Hits Promontory Point\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cars stranded on Lake Shore Drive<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/5411068764\/\" title=\"Lake Shore Drive in the Blizzard by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5059\/5411068764_8ac96e0657.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Lake Shore Drive in the Blizzard\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walking through snow drifts on 54th Street<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/5411255604\/\" title=\"Drifting on 54th Street by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5097\/5411255604_3819c98f41.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Drifting on 54th Street\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harper Avenue and 53rd Street<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/5411304482\/\" title=\"Harper and 53rd Street by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5255\/5411304482_65eeb8e9b9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Harper and 53rd Street\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drifting on Cornell Avenue<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/5410869797\/\" title=\"Cornell Drifting by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5212\/5410869797_4f32bdd81b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Cornell Drifting\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seemingly everyone headed into the streets when the clouds broke<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/5411394361\/\" title=\"Playing in the Drifts by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4146\/5411394361_6602b6cc8d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Playing in the Drifts\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cars were still stranded on Lake Shore Drive in late afternoon<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/5412022484\/\" title=\"Stuck on Lake Shore Drive by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5255\/5412022484_305ff17656.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" alt=\"Stuck on Lake Shore Drive\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago&#8217;s recent blizzard was the third snowiest on record, with 20.2&#8243; of snow falling on the city and winds as high as 70mph. The winds were strongest near the lake, where drifting covered Lake Shore Drive and trapped cars throughout its length. I&#8217;ve received some requests to see the South Side scene, so I&#8217;ve compiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[179,178,10,58,11],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photograph","tag-179","tag-blizzard","tag-chicago","tag-hyde-park","tag-south-side"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFuNp-aA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}